Unusual detail that could decide $15 million race

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By Simon Brunsdon and Brett Graham

It's the richest turf contention successful the world, with a staggering $15,000,000 connected offer. Into its 5th year, The Everest is rapidly becoming 1 of the world's astir sought aft prizes.

Sydney's upwind could play a large portion successful the result of this year's race, with 10mm of rainfall falling connected Thursday evening, on with showers connected Friday morning, which is apt to permission the way a spot softer than would different beryllium the case.

Only 12 horses volition look the starter, with the victor taking location $6.2 cardinal successful prizemoney, portion the runner up picks up a tidy $2.3 million.

The Chris Waller trained Nature Strip is the favourite for the weight-for-age race, with the seven-year-old attempting to triumph the contention astatine his 3rd try, having finished seventh successful 2020 and 4th successful 2019 aft starring for overmuch of the journey.

As Waller explained to the Sydney Morning Herald, Nature Strip's allergies mean the equine often runs amended successful the autumn than the spring. His stall isn't filled with hay arsenic you'd expect, but cardboard.

"I cognize however helium feels, I get hay fever, and I'm not trying to triumph races," Waller said. "If it's hard to respire you conscionable don't consciousness immoderate good. I'll bash thing to marque myself consciousness better.

"We enactment him connected the cardboard to assistance him, due to the fact that it cuts down the dust, and it's the particulate that causes the hay fever, which is caused by his allergies.

"We had him connected antibiotics much days than helium wasn't past year, each ones that you tin contention on, but I deliberation it mightiness person ruined his gut health.

"He had puffers, the works."

WHEN IS IT

Saturday, October 16.

WHERE IS IT

Royal Randwick racecourse successful Sydney's east.

CROWD CAPACITY

The Australian Turf Club had initially planned for a assemblage of 5000 radical astatine NSW's marquee equine racing event.

But lone a week ago, the NSW authorities signed disconnected connected a capableness assemblage of 10,000 to beryllium allowed done the gates connected Saturday.

The venue tin usually person 50,000 people.

Tickets went nationalist connected Thursday.

RACE TIMES

Race 1: 12.30pm

Race 2: 1.05pm

Race 3: 1.40pm

Race 4: 2.15pm

Race 5: 2.50pm

Race 6: 3.25pm

Race 7: 4.15pm (The Everest)

Race 8: 4.50pm

Race 9: 5.30pm

Race 10: 6.10pm

THE EVEREST FIELD

1. Nature Strip (Barrier: 10. Weight: 58.5kg. Trainer: Chris Waller. Jockey: James McDonald)

2. Classique Legend (Barrier: 5. Weight: 58.5kg. Trainer: Les Bridge. Jockey: Kerrin McEvoy)

3. Eduardo (Barrier: 7. Weight: 58.5kg. Trainer: Joseph Pride. Jockey: Nash Rawiller)

4. Gytrash (Barrier: 1. Weight: 58.5kg. Trainer: Gordon Richards & Damien Moyle. Jockey: Jason Collett)

5. Trekking (Barrier: 4. Weight: 58.5kg. Trainer: James Cummings. Jockey: Joshua Parr)

6. Masked Crusader (Barrier: 9. Weight: 58.5kg. Trainer: Michael, Wayne & John Hawkes. Jockey: Tommy Berry)

7. Wild Ruler (Barrier: 11. Weight: 58.5kg. Trainer: Peter and Paul Snowden. Jockey: Tim Clark)

8. The Inferno (Barrier: 12. Weight: 58.5kg. Trainer: Cliff Brown. Jockey: Regan Bayliss)

9. Embracer (Barrier: 3. Weight: 58.5kg. Trainer: Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott. Jockey: Jean Van Overmeire)

10. Lost And Running (Barrier: 2. Weight: 58.5kg. Trainer: John O'Shea. Jockey: Hugh Bowman)

11. Libertini (Barrier: 8. Weight: 56.5kg. Trainer: Anthony Cummings. Jockey: Sam Clipperton)

12. Home Affairs (Barrier: 6. Weight: 53kg. Trainer: Chris Waller. Jockey: Glenn Boss)

Emergencies: Kementari, Signore Fox, Standout, Chat

EVEREST PRIZEMONEY BREAKDOWN

Overall: $15,000,000

1st place: $6.2m

2nd: $2.3m

3rd: $1.4m

4th: $1m

5th: $750,000

6th: $500,000

7th: $450,000

ODDS (courtesy of Bet365, arsenic of Friday afternoon)

$3.60 Nature Strip

$5 Classique Legend

$6 Eduardo

$7.50 Gytrash

$10 Masked Crusader

$11 Home Affairs

$21 The Inferno

$23 Lost And Running

$41 Libertini, Trekking

$51 Wild Ruler

$81 Embracer

PAST WINNERS

2017 - Redzel

2018 - Redzel

2019 - Yes Yes Yes

2020 - Classique Legend

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